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AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours.

The Register AI + MLIndependent reporting·
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An AI tool found one critical and three high-severity bugs in EPICS industrial control software in under four hours, according to The Register. The bugs could disrupt research experiments.

Why it matters: The findings suggest AI can quickly surface serious vulnerabilities in widely used control software.

Written by AI from The Register AI + ML's published text.

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“One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research…”
The Register AI + ML, 27 Oct 2026, 19:11.

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